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Reintegrating Braithwaite: Shame and Consensus in Criminological Theory

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Christopher Uggen
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 481 - 499
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1993 

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